The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-11 and 17-23, and 5 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 92 out of 100 -- hard -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.
The whole song is 96 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.
A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 99 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 5 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
Tempo goes 99, 119, 140, 160 and 180 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.
PRACTISE THIS BEAT →A one-bar groove on ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 180 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 21.3% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-8, 10-11, 17-23 and 41-42, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 17 times over the song.
92 out of 100 on its own -- hard. The song as a whole is 96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.